SIMPLE LIFE IN JERSEY

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1931, Page 5

SIMPLE LIFE IN JERSEY

WHERE TAXES DO NOT WORRY. RATES FOUR AND SIX A YEAR. Under the headifig of “Safe Sanctuary ' from Mr. Snowden,” a correspondent of the Daily Express writes interestingly of the easy-going and almost tax-free life in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. He says: There are 30,000 people in St. Helie-r alone. Of these 29,090 keep shops and hotels. The thirty-thousandth is the income tax collector. He keeps quiet. Jolly-cheeked men in Savile row plusfours, who pay no income tax, tramp the fair roads of the “Lotus Isle,” drinking to Jersey in excellent whisky at 4s Gd a bottle. At St. Aubyns there is a whole school of ex-Indian Army men, grand, curry-tinted fellows, who will stand you a double tiffin as soon as look at you. Snowden bird,” he bellowed. ‘‘l received a demand for lOd. Damme! They owe me 7s 9d, confound it. One of the farmers has been heavily taxed this year, too. Sixteen-and-nine they want from him; This place is going down, confound it.” ’.“What are your yearly rates?” the visitor asked. “Four-and-sixpence,” snorted this onetime scourge of the punkah-wallahs. . There, in their little island sanctuary, they rest safe from Snowden with no tax on their tiffin. Every second man ; you meet here is a limited company, and i of the islanders speak French, and it is 1 common knowledge that sprightly ’ French will bring one many little perquisites —whisky at 3s Gd a bottle, for example.